He was not at all desirous, he said, that his son should be brought back to the world, particularly as he had made it evident by his disappearance that he was anxious to keep out of the way.

"Why should I pay the fellows?
It's no business of mine," he had said to his son.

And from that moment he had declined to do more than make up the first subscription which had been suggested to him.

But the police had been kept very busy, and it was known that the funds had been supplied chiefly by Mr.Tyrrwhit.

He was a resolute and persistent man, and was determined to "run down" Mountjoy Scarborough, as he called it, if money would enable him to do so.